ENB Region 9 Completed Applications 04/07/2004

The application is to modify the currently approved Mining Plan and Permit to add a portable crusher that has a maximum processing capacity less than 150 tons per hour and to change the mine operating hours, currently 8:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday to 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.  No other changes, including acreage (3.4 acres), are proposed.  The mine is  located at the northwest corner of the Town of Little Valley, south of New Albion Road (Cattaraugus County Route 5) and adjacent to the Little Valley - Mansfield Town Line.  

County Line Stone Co., Inc. proposes to modify its mined land use plan for the Akron Quarry to reflect changes in the realignment of several brine pipelines and one petroleum pipeline (Sun Pipeline) which occur on future mining reserve lands, located south of the New York State Thruway  and east of Crittenden Road in the Town of Newstead, Erie County. The applicant proposes to modify its mining plan with a revised pipeline location, movement of the northern excavation limit along the Thruway to the south, modification of the berm placement and size and excavation of the narrow strip of retained land separating the two quarry areas. The excavated mining site will be reclaimed to a lake in the future. It is anticipated that Sun Pipeline will move the company's line to the same area on the applicant's property, along the New York State Thruway, where the Buckeye and Texas Brine pipelines were previously relocated. The Revised Mining Plan and Revised Reclamation Plan are available for review at the Region 9 NYSDEC Office.

The applicant proposes to mine clay and topsoil, affecting 40 acres of land.  The estimated life of the mine is 5 years and the reclamation objective is a 26 acre recreational lake surrounded by wildlife habitat and two potential residential building sites.  The project will impact  0.36 acre of federally jurisdictional wetland and compensatory mitigation will be provided by creating approximately 1.50 acres of emergent wetland within the mine lake.  The haul road will provide access to Ridge Road.